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  1. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Well, Boeing says no rockets work, but mine.
  2. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    A bit more than that. My alt was played relatively infrequently for two weeks (read "had a perma-bar of rest xp"), and knowing you needed rep with all factions meant I dropped two zones mid-point to make sure I was going to get enough reputation to friendly so that I would go to Suramar...
  3. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    So did I, but I must inject the PoV of real casuals in here, because that's possibly the first expansion where Blizzard may see a massive hemorrage of its real casual players. It is the first expansion where a majority of basic casual content is gated behind dungeons. You cannot (litterally...
  4. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Shoemaker-Levy broke down during a previous passage, the time spent below Roche limit during an impact event would not be enough. The Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet is about 5km diameter, which means: - A 100km-wide crater - Blast fallout 1000km from impact - Firestorms: continental level (5000km...
  5. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Finished Peter Hamilton's latest, A Night Without Stars, the second and conclusion to the Faller duology. It's a bit weaker than most, but then, Hamilton always has difficulties finishing stories. I mean, the main twist of the book was not even set up in the previous one, and it feels a bit...
  6. Ukerric

    Grimnoir Chronicles

    They're straight up mil-action thrillers, with a slight sprinkling of fantasy. Probably slightly better than most thriller authors, but they're not as interesting as MHI. Will probably still check the book (since I almost always pick the Baen monthly bundle, so I get lots of books)
  7. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think it's 25rep for the scenario, plus 1 rep per pt, up to 400, so that caps at 425. I finally got all the upgrades, so basically I'm going to do at one point a run for the last pet chest, but outside of that, it's get 400pt, end scenario. The key to boss is to have a large upgraded army...
  8. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    Content updates aren't much of a problem. The biggest problem is still the non-functional in-app scanning. I don't understand why they have not deployed that update that adds the nearest pokestop to 'mon on your radar. It's like they want people to use 3rd-party mappers...
  9. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    No idea, but I would not be surprised if it did not include a fairly large rep token ala-Kirin Tor for the weekly quest. I'm about 100rep from all revered (why aren't we getting rep from cleaning that Warden's Vault mess?), so don't really need rep boosts. I'm going to get full exalted one day...
  10. Ukerric

    History thread

    If you want to head that way, I'm partial to Frank McLynn's Genghis Khan story.
  11. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Last pic:
  12. Ukerric

    Grimnoir Chronicles

    There's also the third book on the Dead Six series out this month. Nothing for years, then 3 in a row.
  13. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I got a note that lists all the recipes I'm not at 3, and shove him one WO per food/fish item. Do that again as soon as I'm going to lapse before the next day. Of course, I have half a bag full of foodstuffs now. But I have my main recipe food (got Azshara Salad 1 day after unlocking Surf'n...
  14. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Urban is such a fan of Elon :)
  15. Ukerric

    Grimnoir Chronicles

    Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge was out last month. There's another Memoirs in december (both collaborations with Ringo, another Baen stable author)
  16. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    No, that worked that way during WOD for the legendary quest line that had you farm raid drops. Only the first kill of a given boss that week gave you the rune/book/whatever thingy, regardless of the difficulty. So you couldn't complete your raid quest in two weeks by running...
  17. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If it's like WOD, you get flagged for quest drop by boss, not by difficulty. I wouldn't be surprised if, despite the fact it can't drop in LFR, killing a boss in LFR will prevent you from getting the essence in "normal" raids.
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Sounds like a Nomi-style worktable bug. When there's too many people in Nomi's kitchen, his table bugs out. You click, nothing opens, and you see that his work order count has dropped, which means you "looted" it. After a while, the Postmaster sends you a mail with the content of the table...
  19. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Everything quested shows up; item drops don't carry if you sold them (you'll have to farm them again, potentially from the BMAH).
  20. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's a bit more than that, but not that much of a problem. You need: 500 OR per 5 days (AK research), 250-400 once or twice a day (missions). That's about the amount of OR you get from the daily emissary chests. If you do 4 WQ a day, you do get enough OR to sustain you in normal play. You need...
  21. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Welcome to Tanaan 7.0
  22. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's not Dro's door we're talking about but the last door (the one after that) that locks the last corridor toward the exit. Normally it's clickable with 10 withered. Last run, it was totally inert. Not even a cursor gear.
  23. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Had that one just two hours ago. Was fine on my previous run, two days ago. Ended up picking the AP and toy chest.
  24. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's been around since release. The area in Stormheim just before Hel is particularly prone to that.
  25. Ukerric

    What's going on at Blizzard?

    That's going to be very difficult, notably for Cata/Panda. You have major lore basically in every zone, but you're going to overlevel each zone by mid zone. For Cata, skip Vash'jir (which is irrelevant to the main storyline), do Hyjal, Deepholm and Uldum, and you have most of it. You're missing...
  26. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    When people list the cheapest Legion flask at 4k per, it's tempting to downscale.
  27. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Eh, my Holy staff is now 875 while the main spec Shadow artifact is stuck at 871... I blame the game for giving only Holy, Life and Shadow WQ, and never a Blood one.
  28. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Flying is currently not achievable, so it's not that important, but you need to do it at one point on at least one character. (I'm currently at 5/11 myself, since I have time)
  29. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I had swum there, but he didn't pop for a while. The "watch out" seems to be when he aggroes; I get a "watch out" message every time as my Mind Control drops. They might have realized he's way too hard for a number of classes, and let people get max score before they try to get his key to go...
  30. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I had lots of lag at first, but it subsided. Managed to skip Dro for a long time (he finally found me on the central room after I had cleared most of it). Used the Mind Control cheese, worked fine (he still killed 2 of my withered while I was redoing the MC after dots). Grabbed the Starcaller...
  31. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Got TWO copies of rank 1 from today's Nomi "experiments". Along with one rank 1 Azshara Salad. Seems he was inspired for a change. So yes, it does pop.
  32. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    A class that basically drops from the sky (completed with smash effect) and jumps straight into Valhalla to talk to Odin for strategy is The Hulk Class.
  33. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    This is the first expansion where I've installed Pawn to get the correct evaluations for gear. For Shadow Priests, INT is the 4th best stat, behind haste, crit and mastery.
  34. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Pulled out my shaman alt for the first time, and made him thru the elem artifact quest. I absolutely don't understand what you're supposed to use as a rotation. Their getter/spender system is beyond comprehension. (the icy vein page is absolutely hilarious, you have like 12 different priorities)
  35. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's why I'm trying to rush my alchemist asap. Food is ok (if only Nomi would give me the 350 stat recipe...). Runes are going to be mostly ignored for the first few weeks while we do lock the normal mode farm and used when we move to heroic; that leaves me time to level the monk (which is a...
  36. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yes; I ditched my harvester boon for tailoring, and am a lot more happy with that one. First time I went up from 0 after withering startup to 1200 mana before the leyline buff expired.
  37. Ukerric

    What's going on at Blizzard?

    Kirin Tor is the only rep I might not do on the same day. "The Magic of Flight" has the bubbles not always showing up correctly, which makes it horrible. The maze box is ok (my mid-50s memory is not shot yet), and the leyline racing is fun. Basically, reusing normal quest scripts and turning...
  38. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    Hatched a Lapras just right now, but mine is 20 (obviously) and 78% :( At least, I ditched the 55% level 10 one I had in the 'dex.
  39. Ukerric

    What's going on at Blizzard?

    Same here. The new daily format (WQ) is a lot better than previous systems. You open up your map (using addons, of course), try to figure out what targets are important, complete your daily bonus, and then, you may hit a dungeon or two. I'm even behind on Nightfallen quest line, because I've...
  40. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well, that's my problem: As a shadow priest, I don't have stun. The only suggestions I've seen for shadow priest is dot - MC until the dots fall off, re-dot, re-MC and so on until he dies. Will probably have to try that.